A study of mobbing awareness levels of lecturer?s in the school of physical education and sport

Today one of the common features of a work place environment is to value the employees and to provide a healthy and secure work environment. However, in recent years organizations have been facing the concept of mobbing which constitutes a serious threat against the emotional health of the employees. Mobbing is a hostile and immoral behavior that can be directed by one or multiple persons systematically.?Mobbing Scale? adapted by Aktop (2006) and developed by Leymann (1993) was applied to 310 Academic Members of Physical Training and Sports High School who work in 14 different universities in Seven Geographic Regions in Turkey in order to determine the awareness of the Academic Members of Physical Training and Sports High School regarding the mobbing.Questionnaire of the work is formed with the first section that determines the demographic features and the ?Mobbing? scale which has six sub-branches. After the obtained data has been transferred to computer percentage, frequency, arithmetic average, standard deviation, kruskal wallis and correlation tests are applied in compliance with the purpose of the research and the data are transformed to tables.It is seen that Academic Members of Physical Training and Sports High School have the highest score averages regarding the sub-dimensions of mobbing in ?attack on prestige? and the lowest score averages regarding ?direct attack to health?. It is determined that mobbing sub-dimension score averages of Academic Members of Physical Training and Sports High School according to their sex, marital status, length, administrative type of duty and the departments they study don?t differentiate. However it has also been determined that mobbing score averages differentiate according to the age, title, administrative position and working hours of the academic members.With this concern it is seen that mobbing awareness of Members of Physical Training and Sports High School differentiate in terms of certain variants. It is essential that studies should be increased not only for academic members but also for employees in many areas and that necessary legal arrangements should also be made especially in legal terms.Key Words: Mobbing, Academic Members, Victim, Physical Training and Sports